Fernandes Who Can Stop the Drums?

Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9170-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

A vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Venezuela.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fernandes, Sujatha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Individual and Collective Histories

1. Urban Political Histories

2. Poverty, Violence, and the Neoliberal Turn

3. Personal Lives

II. Everyday Life and Politics

4. Culture, Identity, and Urban Movements

5. Barrio-Based Media and Communications

6. The Takeover of the Alameda Theater

III. State-Society Mediation

7. The New Coalitional Politics of Social Movements

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sujatha Fernandes is Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures, also published by Duke University Press.